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I'm talking with an ad blocker. I can only imagine how bad it is without one. Twitter is still sluggish as hell, especially how it's basically one big table of
by MichaelGG 10y ago
I'm talking with an ad blocker. I can only imagine how bad it is without one. Twitter is still sluggish as hell, especially how it's basically one big table of text+images.
- Touche 10y agoYou should compare 1999 Yahoo Mail to Gmail or Fastmail of today. I don't think you'd prefer the former.
- MichaelGG 10y agoAnd that's mainly due to what, though? AJAX? (Ignoring other enhancements.) And I'm excepting out a lot of "apps", because the browser has gotten more powerful, sure (and software dev has progressed). But mostly content sites that aren't heavy on any real interaction, iow, sites I "surf". Things just feel ... sluggish at a UI level (not the old sluggish of watching progressive JPEGs slowly refine).
- kasabali 10y ago>> Can you honestly say info browsing (not apps like GDocs) overall is better than it was 10-20 years ago? > You should compare 1999 Yahoo Mail to Gmail or Fastmail of today. I don't think your examples relevant because they are well in the realm of "apps" and not "info browsing" OP talks about.